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Just finished a new build (AMD budget PC), installed Mint5, and everything seems to work but the display resolution options don't match my new monitor.

I have a new Samsung 19" LCD that wants to be at 1440x900 (I know because the display keeps popping up with that suggestion), but the resolution in Mint only allows 2 options 800x600 or 9xx x 640 (I can't remember the exact numbers). Nowhere near what I want. It is viewable but not optimum.

That post was very misleading. If you look in Software Manager, System Tools and install Envyng this will check your system and suggest and install the necessary driver for your video. Hopefully this will cure your problem.

To be clear: I installed the software package "Envyng", then ran that application. It downloaded a number of things, one of which was an application for tuning the resolution (something called Nvidia). Running that application tuned the display resolution just fine.